Greetings everyone,
There is something I have wondered about since I was a little tike. They say all matter is made up of millions if not billions of atoms. Now given that, have you ever wondered that our galaxy is just a "atom" and we are part of something much more than we might think? For example, our sun is like the nucleus, and the planets are like protons and neutrons with their own orbit around the "nucleus".What do you people think? If this could at all be true, what do all the galaxies combined make up? Always makes me wonder! Any thoughts?
Full Version: all galaxies are just like an atom
So the atoms here, get smaller and smaller for infinity and were merely a level on some granduer atom. Seems likely to me.
the nucleous is made up of protons and nuetrons, if the sun was the nucleas that would make the planets electrons
Our solar system is 9 planets orbits a nucleus(Our sun). We have seen(guessed and calculated more often than not)that other planets cirle other stars in other solar systems;and I would guess it is much the same in the rest of the universe.
I could kind of see a similarity between atoms and solar systems. It would be nice if it were something so beautiful; we are a part of a larger being, conversely we are made of tiny solar systems with small worlds...
I could kind of see a similarity between atoms and solar systems. It would be nice if it were something so beautiful; we are a part of a larger being, conversely we are made of tiny solar systems with small worlds...
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I could kind of see a similarity between atoms and solar systems. It would be nice if it were something so beautiful; we are a part of a larger being, conversely we are made of tiny solar systems with small worlds...
Well said, Fluffybunny. I thought about that too...
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Greetings everyone,
There is something I have wondered about since I was a little tike. They say all matter is made up of millions if not billions of atoms. Now given that, have you ever wondered that our galaxy is just a "atom" and we are part of something much more than we might think? For example, our sun is like the nucleus, and the planets are like protons and neutrons with their own orbit around the "nucleus".What do you people think? If this could at all be true, what do all the galaxies combined make up? Always makes me wonder! Any thoughts?
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There is something I have wondered about since I was a little tike. They say all matter is made up of millions if not billions of atoms. Now given that, have you ever wondered that our galaxy is just a "atom" and we are part of something much more than we might think? For example, our sun is like the nucleus, and the planets are like protons and neutrons with their own orbit around the "nucleus".What do you people think? If this could at all be true, what do all the galaxies combined make up? Always makes me wonder! Any thoughts?
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That was the exact same idea I came up with a long time ago. wrote about that in my journal and talked about it with my friend at school. I mean the exact, mah friend. I even drew a little atom and everything and then the solar system to show similarities.
Have you ever read A Wrinkle In Time?
Thanks for your insight guys! Glad to know there are other people around as weird as me- oops, I meant that think like me! 
Never heard of the book "a wrinkle in time" as I am not an avid book reader, but I assume it is along the same topic we are discussing, so it must be interesting. Thanks again
Never heard of the book "a wrinkle in time" as I am not an avid book reader, but I assume it is along the same topic we are discussing, so it must be interesting. Thanks again
Sorry, guys and girls, the solar system depiction of an atom was only being just to explain the atom to simpletons. Maybe it is a good idea to read up on quantum mechanics.
No need to mock anyone! Alienbear is right in that electrons doesn't orbit around the nucleus, its based on the heisenberg uncertainty principal of quantum lvls n could potentially be anywhere within its lvl. The scaling and the forces are disimilar as well. But it is a entirely possible that our universe is a quantum anomaly in some other macroscopic world.
No argument with that.
That's actually a really interesting idea. I think the same thing about quantum physics and macro physics sometimes. Like what counts as really big and really small. Because if the universe in infinite there's really no such thing as big and small and our solar system would be teeeeeny in an infinite universe.
Very interesting point, you've got my mind spiralling now...
Very interesting point, you've got my mind spiralling now...
"Because if the universe is infinite..."
Huh? Did I miss something in the decades since Edwin Hubble? Who suggests that the universe is infinite? The best theory to date (big bang) says that the universe came into existence 13-14 billion years ago. Since the universe started at zero size and space has been expanding since the big bang, the universe may have expanded faster than the speed of light. Here's an interesting explanation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3753115.stm
The universe is NOT infinite.
The solar system is NOTHING like an atom.
Electrons DO NOT "orbit" the nucleus of the atom.
Huh? Did I miss something in the decades since Edwin Hubble? Who suggests that the universe is infinite? The best theory to date (big bang) says that the universe came into existence 13-14 billion years ago. Since the universe started at zero size and space has been expanding since the big bang, the universe may have expanded faster than the speed of light. Here's an interesting explanation:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3753115.stm
The universe is NOT infinite.
The solar system is NOTHING like an atom.
Electrons DO NOT "orbit" the nucleus of the atom.
The structure and funcioning of an atom doesn't correspond with that of a solar system or a galaxy but there is something similar about them. As for the infinite universe - this universe is not infinite but Steven Hawking said that the Big Bang theory implies that this may not be the only universe out there. If there are other universes besides ours, they may behave like parts of a larger system comparable to an atom or a galaxy...
WOA!!! Coyote just smoked the magic weed, and thought of something
outrageous:
what if solar sys is atom. what if atom is apart of
something bigger. what if that bigger is another thing,
and like us, we are made of atoms. Yes!
So, Coyote may be apart of a massive dude, that we
cannot see because we way too small. Yes!
outrageous:
what if solar sys is atom. what if atom is apart of
something bigger. what if that bigger is another thing,
and like us, we are made of atoms. Yes!
So, Coyote may be apart of a massive dude, that we
cannot see because we way too small. Yes!
Cheers Isaac! that was enlightening 
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